Is it possible for a linux desktop to be

Good work on letting ideology blind you to the point, dumbass. The only reason we know why or how any of this shit works is because we've learned from others. It's not at all intuitive. Command lines, shells, FORTH is intuitive. Typing words that you understand into a machine that understands them. Web 2.0 isn't usable. Web 3.0 is a fucking labrynthian hell of arbitrary icons (of which some ar einteractive, but it won't tell you) and ill-defined visual borders. This is all learned behaviour, and UI/UX has always been a huge scam because of it.

use the terminal its easier and faster. if you don't understand a command use man *
where * is write the command. man gets the manual for how to use that command. the problem with linux is that its meant to be used like a unix system, from the command line you can take some small basic programs chain them together into a pipeline and process complex data. if you treat linux the way its meant to be then its actually much more useful than windows or os X which really inhibit this kind of usage.

Your sample size of 1 random sand-nigger has me convinced, that's for sure.

'It just works' is a bad principle for free software. The user should invest his time learning the system, or it'll be like he's not even using free software. You have 4 freedoms, but if you don't use them, what's the difference?

It's not for me. When i refer friends to linux i want a stable, easy distro so they don't go back to windoze10 immediately.

Put them on Kubuntu. Not even joking, it's basically sexy Windows. It comes with an option during install to encrypt the home folder too, using their normal password, so it's as secure as a normalfag would need.

Who cares about free software. Linux is just better than windows regardless.

Depends. If you're familiar with loonix and have a specific setup in mind, it takes less time. If you just want to use your computer and haven't learned weird nerd shit it takes more.
If you need to ask, maybe just stick with Ubuntu. Debian is worth trying if you like trying distros.

you dont switch to linux to be secure.
you can be hacked when running linux

try peppermint.